Software for public domain e-book fans to help organize, fetch and share their free books
Check out Voluminous: App for organizing, fetching and sharing public domain books, in Boing Boing.
Voluminous, written up earlier in Wonderland, is an “Internet librarian for Mac OS X 10.5.”
Get more info on Voluminous and download here. The trial download is free, and the price is around $30 for people in the States.
Voluminous’s tagline: “20,000 books. For the price of one hardback.”
Compatibility: Apparently none for the PC and linux. I assume that’ll happen in time; otherwise imagine the plight of people who switch operating systems, maybe through no choice of their own. Hmm. Any Mac emulators out there for PCs? Actually, yes, although I don’t know about OS X.
An alternative for PC owners: The free yBook, which lacks all of Voluminous’s feature but at least is integrated with Project Gutenberg’s catalog. We’ve mentioned yBook a number of times here.
April 28th, 2008 at 11:40 am
This is great… I know better.
How about a site that starts with “ebook” and rhymes with PirateBay ?
You can download not only free boks but pretty much everything that’s out there on P2P networks.
While tyhe app is all legal and nicer, this website I find more useful in real life scenarios when I want to grab a book I’ve heard of.
April 28th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
For the N800/N810/etc, and works directly with FBReader:
http://www.elisanet.fi/ptvirtan/software/gutenbrowse/index.html
and it’s 100% Free…